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The document defines and lists the main components of a motherboard, including the CPU socket, memory slots, CMOS battery, ISA/PCI/AGP slots, power connectors, chipset, and graphical devices. The CPU socket provides a mechanical and electrical connection for the processor, memory slots hold RAM, and the CMOS battery stores BIOS settings when power is off. Additional components are slots for expansion cards, connectors for power supply units, and ports on the back panel.

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3.assignment ITC

The document defines and lists the main components of a motherboard, including the CPU socket, memory slots, CMOS battery, ISA/PCI/AGP slots, power connectors, chipset, and graphical devices. The CPU socket provides a mechanical and electrical connection for the processor, memory slots hold RAM, and the CMOS battery stores BIOS settings when power is off. Additional components are slots for expansion cards, connectors for power supply units, and ports on the back panel.

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1. List and defined mother board component

Main Components of Motherboard:

1. CPU Socket:
A CPU socket or CPU slot is a mechanical component(s) that provides mechanical and
electrical connections between a microprocessor and a printed circuit board (PCB). This
allows the CPU to be replaced without soldering. Common sockets have retention clips
that apply a constant force, which must be overcome when a device is inserted. For
chips with a large number of pins, either zero insertion force (ZIF) sockets or land grid
array (LGA) sockets are used instead.

2. Memory Slots
A memory slot, memory socket, or RAM slot is what allows computer memory (RAM)
to be inserted into the computer. Depending on the motherboard, there will usually be 2
to 4 memory slots (sometimes more on high-end motherboards) and is what determine
the type of RAM used with the computer. The most common types of RAM are
SDRAM and DDR for desktop computers and SODIMM for laptop computers, each
having various types and speeds. In the below picture, is an example of what memory
slots may look like inside a desktop computer. In this picture, there are three open
available slots for three memory sticks.
3. CMOS Battery
Non-volatile BIOS memory refers to a small memory on PC motherboards that is used
to store BIOS settings. It was traditionally called CMOS RAM because it used a volatile,
low-power complementary metaloxide-semiconductor (CMOS) SRAM (such as
Motorola MC146818 or similar) powered by a small battery when system power was
off.

4. ISA, PCI and AGP Slots

ISA, or Industry Standard Architecture, is an 8bit or 16bit parallel bus system that allowed up to 6
devices to be connected to a PC. Virtually all IBM-compatible PCs made before the Pentium were
based on the ISA (IBM's PC AT) bus. This asynchronous bus architecture uses 16-bit addresses and
an 8-MHz clock and handles a maximum data throughput of 2 MB/s to 3 MB/s.
AGP, Accelerates Graphics Port is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video
card to a computer's motherboard. The primary advantage of AGP over PCI is that it provides
a dedicated pathway between the slot and the processor rather than sharing the PCI bus.

5. Power Connectors

6. Chipset
7. Graphical Devices
8. Back Panel and Ports

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